Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists

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Comment by Grethe Bjørnhaug on November 2, 2015 at 10:22pm

Thank you for your friendly welcome, De Villo Sloan :)

Comment by De Villo Sloan on November 2, 2015 at 9:21pm

Welcome to the group, Grethe. Thank you for sharing the work. Yes, that looks asemic to me. And very nice visual poetry too. Feel free to keep posting, ask questions, make comments, etc.

Comment by Grethe Bjørnhaug on November 2, 2015 at 8:45pm

Thank you for membership in this group. I hope I have understood it right, and that my pictures are asemic writing. Otherwise, please tell me.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on October 30, 2015 at 7:50pm

I always knew you were a Poundian at heart, Fike. You nailed it!

And as for some SSP (Shameless Self Promotion), I found Michael Jacobson used my asemic piece on the Post-Literate blog. Many thanks to Michael!

http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/2015/10/asemic-writing-by-de...

Comment by Ficus strangulensis on October 30, 2015 at 5:55pm

http://www.irvingweiss.net/vv_theimp.html

A poem I LOVE and which impinges on the notion of semicity.

Comment by Ficus strangulensis on October 30, 2015 at 4:21pm

An Asemicity Thought for 2day"

I hope to be starting a conversation with Marton Koppany regarding the idea of an 'asemicity kit' consisting in: a text* which is intended to be intelligible to the recipient and a hammer with instruction (*) to apply the hammer to his head until the text becomes asemic to him.

YOB, Fike [currently at Planet Fike]

Comment by De Villo Sloan on October 30, 2015 at 10:19am

Thanks, Jan.

A theme for one of the collaborative books we did in this group with Cheryl Penn was "Asemic Syntax." I remember she and I were both very interested in the topic. I am still.

Guido Vermeulen felt Asemic Syntax was a self-contradictory topic, that Asemic Syntax is impossible. I had to pause on that one because Guido was so tremendously knowledgeable.

I really need to post those books somewhere all together. I'll see what I can find in terms of the ways different contributors addressed Asemic Syntax.

Comment by Jan Hodgman on October 30, 2015 at 2:02am

I like this, De Villo. Lately I'm drawn to asemics that mirror the "syntax" of our writing, so the shape of a "paragraph" for example or poetic style of enjambment. I also find myself chuckling over putting a lot of thought into meaning around asemics! Thank you for your piece.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on October 29, 2015 at 11:22pm

Comment by De Villo Sloan on October 27, 2015 at 12:28pm

Thank you so much, Jan, for the clarification/explanation.

Using terms such as "right" and "wrong" in this group is a kind of jello wrestling. BUT I am glad I was able to glean your intent w/ my original use of the vertical scan. I admire the other who had us look at it from different perspectives as well. I have been disastrously wrong on several occasions. That's for sure.

Yes, I know that's your stamp.

And I do look forward to your asemics especially because I know about your involvement in Buddhism and I am curious as to how a Buddhist (or the Buddhist philosophy) approaches asemics.

Thanks again, Jan

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